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| IcaroRibeiro said: This is completely irrelevant to my point. Hardware stop being produced and console physical games are tied to platforms. Console stop being produced in a very short time, less than 10 years indeed. Which means that yes EVERY physical copy will be soon or later be rendered useless simply because there will be no way to play them |
False.
FPGA exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array
In short, it allows for 100% replication of original processors.
And that essentially means a re-release of original hardware... Like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nt
| IcaroRibeiro said: This is similar to how VHS movie collections are absolutely dead as there are no VHS players in the market for many years now. Consoles being closed platforms mean that every generation is a reset, except when the company decides to backward compatibility route which extends the shelf life of the physical copy for two generations |
The difference between VHS and video game media is many.
VHS was replaced with a superior, more ubiquitous media that also had far better compatibility and features.
Every VHS release had a DVD release...And if it didn't, it was childs play to copy a VHS onto a DVD, in-fact there were dedicated players that featured a DVD burner+VHS deck in the one unit just for this purpose.
However... In saying that, there has been a resurgence in "retro" media like VHS, Betamax and even traditional records.
Games by comparison are riddled with DRM and/or designed for a certain platform. Chalk and cheese comparison, I appreciate you trying though.
| IcaroRibeiro said: In a physical only world this means that during PS6, PS7 and PS8 times the only way to play PS1 and PS2 games is counting with the goodwill of the company to keep re-releasing and printing the same games again and again. With years and decades this means company would need to print regularly dozens of thousands of games because every generation there will be a huge amount of new games being released that will need to be added to the printing stack |
No reprinting required.
| IcaroRibeiro said: Such issue does not exist with digital. Bar the VERY uncommon cases of a company purposefully shutting down their own games. This happens in other industries as well, Disney refuses to sell the Sound of South because of its racist undertones, otherwise every movie of them is on Disney Plus. There is nothing to be concerned with digital stores. If anything they will made games much less likely dissappear |
Disney removes all sorts from its digital library.
See here: https://whatsondisneyplus.com/more-disney-originals-removed-globally-including-crater-more-than-robots/
| SvennoJ said: Anyway my Intellivision is now over 40 years old, all games still work. The controllers still work. Just a pita to hook it up to modern tvs. ROM cartridges and CDs last a long time, sadly my 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks are pretty much worthless, as well as games that came on tape. Magnetic media lasts the shortest, hence HDDs being so fragile. SSD I don't know, my old (write-able) memory cards are all failing so not too optimistic about SSD drives either :/ |
HDD's can keep it's data in "cold storage" for years.
NAND will "bit flip" and loose data over time.
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